When thinking about managers who say, “They just don’t get it!” I recall the quote from John Wooden: “You haven’t taught until they have learned.” Perhaps we may paraphrase. “You haven’t led until they get it.”

If a CEO believes that hiring talent means hiring employees, then s/he is doomed to fail at talent acquisition and talent management.
* Before we can manage talent we need to hire talent.
* Before we can hire talent we need to find talent.
* Before we can find talent we need to know what talent looks like.
* Before we can know what talent looks like we need to know how to measure talent.
* Before we can know how to measure talent we need to know how to identify talent.
* Before we can identify talent we need to define talent.
* Before we can define talent we need to ask, “How do I define talent?”

This is not rocket science but few employers know how to do it effectively.

Loving this article. The simplicity of it is fantastic and it helps show how leaders have to make sure they are not allowing their leadership to be weak by blaming the comprehension of their bottomline